Once again, I've read a lot (and I actually cut back on reading and reviewing this year, figuring I've saturated the market!), but I've narrowed my best-of's to three lists again. And I keep thinking I've overlooked someone, but I refuse to make a "P.S. List". At least I think I refuse...
Anyway, here's the best of what I read this year for the shop. I've listed them alphabetically by author because that's the most equal way I can figure to list them. And yeah, I cheated in spots, lumping two titles under one name. 'Cause I'm like that!
Hardcovers
Max Barry – Lexicon (Penguin)
Holly Black – The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (Little Brown)
Alan Bradley – Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Delacorte, Jan. 14, 2014)
Lee Child – Never Go Back (Delacorte)
John Connolly – The Creeps (Atria)
Gary Corby – Sacred Games (Soho)
Jasper Fforde – Song of the Quarkbeast (HMH)
Joshilyn Jackson – Someone Else's Love Story (William Morrow) - Signed Copies Available
My Own Miraculous (William Morrow)
Craig Johnson – Spirit of Steamboat (Viking) - Signed Copies Available
Lisa Lutz – The Last Word (Simon & Schuster)
Val McDermid – Cross and Burn (Atlantic Monthly)
Thomas Perry – Ordinary Grace (Atria)
Hank Phillippi Ryan – The Wrong Girl (Forge) - Signed Copies Available
Brandon Sanderson – Steelheart (Delacorte)
Paperback
(Some of these I read as hardbacks, but they're paperbacks now – or soon will be)
Jussi Adler-Olsen – The Keeper of Lost Causes (Plume)
The Absent Ones (Plume)
Lori Armstrong – Merciless (Touchstone)
Alan Bradley – Speaking From Among the Bones (Bantam, Dec. 31, 2013)
John Connolly – Wrath of Angels (Pocket)
Jasper Fforde – The Last Dragonslayer (HMH)
Ian Hamilton – The Disciple of Las Vegas (Picador)
The Wild Beasts of Wuhan (Picador)
Hugh Howey – Wool (Simon & Schuster)
Ben H. Winters – Countdown City (Quirk) - Signed Copies Available
Northwest
(combined hardcover and paperback)
Patricia Briggs – Frost Budrned (Penguin)
Yasmine Galenorn – Haunted Moon (Berkley) - Signed Copies Available
Autumn Whispers (Berkley) - Signed Copies Available
Nicola Griffith – Hild (Ferrar, Straus and Giroux) - Signed Copies Available
Michael Gruber – The Return (Henry Holt) - Signed Copies Available
Roger Hobbs – Ghostman (Vintage)
Mike Lawson – House Odds (Atlantic Monthly) - Signed Copies Available
Benjamine Percy – Red Moon (Grand Centraly) - Signed Copies Available
Kat Richardson – Possession (Roc) - Signed Copies Available
Urban Waite – The Carrion Birds (William Morrow) - Signed Copies Available
Special Note:
I read all of Craig Johnson's "Longmire" books in one fell swoop, so they ALL belong here! I kept Spirit of Steamboat out special above because it's unique, a Longmire book that isn't in the timeline of the series. But yeah, I read them all and loved 'em.
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